AFP - Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren-Mercedes team have reacted angrily to a controversial race-wrecking penalty imposed on the British driver during the French Grand Prix here.

AP - Facing strong U.S. pressure and global dismay over oil prices, Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will produce more crude this year if the market needs it. But the vague pledge fell far short of U.S. hopes for a specific increase and may do little to lower prices immediately.

AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.

AP - Thirteen-year-old Yulianto has spent half his life in an orphanage, but not because his parents are dead.

AP - It will be an election with no opponent and little hope of endorsement from even traditional allies. But President Robert Mugabe appears determined to go through with a runoff later this week, and to extend his nearly three decades in power for as long as he can.

AP - Venezuela's environment minister said Saturday that the government will put national interests first in the mining sector and forbid mining in a biodiverse forest reserve that is home to two of the country's largest gold concessions.

AP - Jordan turned over Sunday nearly 2,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts to Iraq's top antiquities official, in the latest effort to recover the war-torn nation's stolen heritage.

AFP - Fifteen-year-old British rider Scott Redding on Sunday became the youngest winner in grand prix history after he crossed the line first during a thrilling 125cc race at Donington.

AP - Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew.

AP - Militants in Pakistan fired rockets at NATO bases across the border in Afghanistan, killing three children in a village and prompting the alliance to launch a pair of retaliatory artillery strikes, officials said Sunday.

AP - A female suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.

AP - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.

AFP - Australia's new government has vowed to maintain a controversial policy aimed at protecting Aboriginal children in remote settlements, a year after police and troops were sent into the camps.